Update: We've edited the blog as Blizzard made some edits and clarifications to their post.

Followers, Visitors, and More

Kaivax

Since we first stepped foot on the Draenor of the past, we’ve been inexorably drawn toward one intriguing tale among a multitude of storylines taking place there. In patch 6.1, the quest line that began with ‘Call of the Archmage’ will continue, and the stakes have never been higher. What follows is just a glimpse of some of the additional new items and updates within the patch.Spoilers follow from here! Do not read this post any further if you do not want story details spoiled.

Garona Halforcen

Some may know Garona from her exploits in Azeroth. This powerful rogue assassin was responsible for the death of King Llane Wrynn. Along with her son Med’an, she aided the New Council of Tirisfal in their brutal struggle against the Twilight’s Hammer and the evil ogre magi Cho’gall.The escapades of Garona of Draenor have proven no less signficant. Not long after you first arrived in this savage land, Garona attempted to assassinate Khadgar, but you captured her.Since then, Khadgar has tried to break the mind control that Garona clearly suffers from. His efforts, and yours, have been in vain … until now. In patch 6.1, you’ll receive a new quest to infiltrate a Shadow Council stronghold and steal an artifact. Khadgar hopes to be able to free Garona’s mind.

Your First Legendary Follower

In the savage world of Draenor, you may not have any true friends, but you can forge partnerships with a meaningful purpose. Thanks to Garona, you’ll learn what Gul’dan is up to, and you’ll get the opportunity to witness firsthand as he attempts to take control of the Iron Horde and capture Grommash Hellscream.Gul’dan is making enemies on all sides.Thereafter, you’ll obtain your first Legendary follower. Garona Semiorco comes to you with three abilities befitting an Assassination Rogue, as well as the Maestro asesino trait, which greatly increases the chance of success on any mission she is assigned to. Furthermore, she starts at a follower item level of 630.

More to Do

In patch 6.1, you’ll now see new visitors to your Garrison: quest-givers offering you a variety of activities if you’ve reached Garrison Tier 3. These include:

Bounty Quests – Group up with two or more additional players to hunt down and defeat a powerful enemy and you’ll earn gold and a chance to get an heirloom quest item off of the creature you kill for the quest.

Profession daily – Get your hands on more Primal Spirits, reduce your surplus reagents, and buy the new recipes for crafted upgrades and transmutes.

Relic Quests– Completing these quests will reward gold and ultimately Harrison Jones as a new Follower.

Weekly Raid quests – These quests will reward gold and an ilevel 645 or 655 token.

Invasions will also be going Platinum- You’ll now be able to earn new rank when running a Garrison Invasion taking your performance in defending it from Gold to Platinum. The last boss within a Garrison Invasion will also have a chance to drop a summonable Raid boss item. You’ll want to get 10-40 players together in your Garrison before you activate it.

Other New Visitors

There’s a new vendor coming to your Garrison who allows you to spend Garrison Resources on Follower Trait Retraining Guides or Follower Ability Retraining Manuals.Followers can now obtain the Treasure Hunter trait, which increases the amount of gold awarded from a mission that rewards gold. There are a number of new Follower missions available to you in patch 6.1, including missions that reward Apexis Crystals, Savage Blood, Augmentation runes, Archaeology Artifacts, and items that instantly complete work orders.A new visitor to your garrison’s pet menagerie who comes bearing rewards for pet battlers and the promise of a new pets. This coincides with the discovery of a number of new pets in the raid dungeons of Outland. Pet collectors will want to delve into Black Temple, Hyjal Summit, and Sunwell Plateau in search of a dozen fierce companions and the achievement reward pet K’ute.

Jukebox and Music Rolls

Customize the music that plays in your Garrison by picking up a new quest in your Garrison to build your very own jukebox. You’ll be able to collect Music Rolls and apply them to your Jukebox so you can set the mood as you go about maintaining your base in Draenor.

Tiger Strikes Hotfixes

Lore

We recently found a significant bug with for all Monks, and wanted to explain the incoming fixes that will resolve it.

The bug itself was twofold. First off, Tiger Strikes was incorrectly able to trigger from unsuccessful autoattacks (such as those that miss, or have been dodged or parried). However, it was NOT able to trigger from Multistrikes. We'll be fixing Tiger Strikes to its intended behavior: it will no longer activate on unsuccessful autoattacks, but will be able to activate from successful Multistrikes.

Fixing those bugs will result in an overall damage gain for all Monks, so we'll be making a couple other adjustments:

For Brewmasters, we're going to reduce the damage done by Embate con barril by 20%. We felt that Brewmaster DPS was too strong already, and the fix only pushes them further.

Windwalkers and Mistweavers were a little weak, which is why we're increasing Patada del sol naciente's damage amplification debuff from 10% to 20% in 6.1. The Tiger Strikes fix will be a small damage increase on top of that, but we're going to keep an eye on where Windwalkers and Mistweavers end up as a result of it before making any further adjustments if necessary.

These changes were not able to make it into the final 6.1 build, but will be hotfixed in shortly after 6.1 goes live.We did also find that was incorrectly using the lower dual-wield proc chance when Mistweavers were equipping one-handed items in conjunction with off-hand items. We’ll be fixing that to give the full 10% chance while in Crane Stance when these hotfixes go live.

We’ve also discovered that the tooltip for is incorrectly stating that the chance for it to activate is 6.25% while dual-wielding. The actual chance is 5% (and has been since Warlords of Draenor released). The tooltip will be updated in a future patch.

Comentarios

Comentario de christianjlo

on 2015-02-23T09:28:27-06:00

WoW looks nice and can't wait to delve into the new content :)

Comentario de jglonek

on 2015-02-23T09:35:04-06:00

Does the Garona quest come after you finish the Blackrock part of the chain, or is it in addition to? Nothing ever popped up automatically on the PTR and Khadgar has nothing for me, so I guess it's after 900 fragments.

Also, I just popped on the PTR and I do not see a vendor that sells follower upgrade tokens for garrison resources. I see the re-roll certs on the garrison quartermaster.

Comentario de perculia

on 2015-02-23T09:47:04-06:00

I've added some staff notes because some parts of the blog contradict what I've seen on the PTR, like the reroll certificates.

Comentario de RageZero

on 2015-02-23T09:53:25-06:00

The Garona quest is the next part of the Legendary chain. This means you will have to complete all the previous parts of 6.0 before you can get the quest.

Comentario de Rankkor

on 2015-02-23T10:12:32-06:00

I'm still sad that Garona isn't a Bodyguard follower.

D=

Comentario de stym

on 2015-02-23T10:30:34-06:00

The Garona quest is the next part of the Legendary chain. This means you will have to complete all the previous parts of 6.0 before you can get the quest.

Does this mean no Garona until you get your ilvl 710 ring?

Comentario de jglonek

on 2015-02-23T10:40:34-06:00

I've added some staff notes because some parts of the blog contradict what I've seen on the PTR, like the reroll certificates.

Definitely starting to get concerned that there are communication issues at Blizzard :/

The Garona quest is the next part of the Legendary chain. This means you will have to complete all the previous parts of 6.0 before you can get the quest.

Does this mean no Garona until you get your ilvl 710 ring?

Seems that way. So unless I get Blackhand on normal the earliest I'll get Garona is the end of March. Assuming I have all 900 elemental runes by then.

Comentario de RockwellH

on 2015-02-23T10:55:41-06:00

perculia I know this is a fan site and a nice one , but why do you guys never cover the not so good parts of the game. for instant the changes to Ashran in 6.1 .

Comentario de jjanchan

on 2015-02-23T11:12:48-06:00

Not so good parts? That's an incredibly subjective statement, some people are quite pleased with the changes actually. Not to mention the changes are listed on this site if you look.

Comentario de LordRaikalo

on 2015-02-23T11:14:30-06:00

perculia I know this is a fan site and a nice one , but why do you guys never cover the not so good parts of the game. for instant the changes to Ashran in 6.1 .

I thought everyone would be happy about faster queue times and faster battles.

Comentario de perculia

on 2015-02-23T11:41:52-06:00

The blog got updated with better-wording on the Garrison Resources vendor section, so I've updated the post.

Comentario de BMHunterMain

on 2015-02-23T12:42:34-06:00

I get tired of the fact that I rarely hear anything but complaints about this game, but this "content" really is phoned-in and worthless. And I say this as a colorblind player, so I am getting one more useful feature out of this than most.

'Player housing' sounded really interesting when announced at Blizzcon and I enjoyed my Garrison for about a week or so after launch, but it sucks the MMO out of the MMORPG and turns wow into a 3D Zynga game... the buffs & items & currency given by the garrison are too good to pass up, so every day I get on to wow I just feel forced to run around doing all this completely pointless, repetitive clicking, it is 100% solitary and 0% fun. If anything, scaling back Garrisons (making it so we don't have to waste as much time in them) is the direction to move in, not adding more.

Especially as someone who enjoys watching wow pvp streams on Twitch, I just really hoped for balancing and possibly most importantly, some changes to address what virtually everybody is calling "slow-paced" and generally not-fun pvp. I mean, it is normal for people to get bored of a game, so if a few of the biggies were saying that it'd be one thing, but it is basically everybody... you have the world's most accomplished mage streaming H1Z1, other people that have been "wow streamers" for six years just up and quitting the game because they can't justify playing a game that is all grind and no payoff (exactly like a Zynga game, that is really the best comparison I feel anyone could draw and I hope Blizz realizes this and sees why it is a problem), and the fact that a patch is coming that doesn't seem to address any of the problems in the game is just really discouraging, I mean, what are they thinking?

They took the worst elements of WoD and expanded on them, while all but completely ignoring all the actual fun content (or at least the fun content that I enjoy). I have zero interest in playing LoL but I've actually been considering sitting down and playing it anyway, just because it is really difficult to continue enjoying a game when there's nobody left to play with.

Comentario de RockwellH

on 2015-02-23T13:43:19-06:00

perculia I know this is a fan site and a nice one , but why do you guys never cover the not so good parts of the game. for instant the changes to Ashran in 6.1 .

changesI thought everyone would be happy about faster queue times and faster battles.

ashran is a mess ,and as far as faster queue times and faster battles maybe! killing the main road battles over side events imo not a good ideal

Windwalkers and Mistweavers were a little weak, which is why we're increasing Rising Sun Kick's damage amplification debuff from 10% to 20% in 6.1.

Gee, thanks.

Lol they've gone back on changes like this before. I was thinking of the same thing, actually.

Comentario de lankybrit

on 2015-02-23T20:42:49-06:00

All looks good. Can't wait for tomorrow.

Comentario de MrReaper23

on 2015-02-24T04:41:51-06:00

I get tired of the fact that I rarely hear anything but complaints about this game, but this "content" really is phoned-in and worthless. And I say this as a colorblind player, so I am getting one more useful feature out of this than most.

'Player housing' sounded really interesting when announced at Blizzcon and I enjoyed my Garrison for about a week or so after launch, but it sucks the MMO out of the MMORPG and turns wow into a 3D Zynga game... the buffs & items & currency given by the garrison are too good to pass up, so every day I get on to wow I just feel forced to run around doing all this completely pointless, repetitive clicking, it is 100% solitary and 0% fun. If anything, scaling back Garrisons (making it so we don't have to waste as much time in them) is the direction to move in, not adding more.

Especially as someone who enjoys watching wow pvp streams on Twitch, I just really hoped for balancing and possibly most importantly, some changes to address what virtually everybody is calling "slow-paced" and generally not-fun pvp. I mean, it is normal for people to get bored of a game, so if a few of the biggies were saying that it'd be one thing, but it is basically everybody... you have the world's most accomplished mage streaming H1Z1, other people that have been "wow streamers" for six years just up and quitting the game because they can't justify playing a game that is all grind and no payoff (exactly like a Zynga game, that is really the best comparison I feel anyone could draw and I hope Blizz realizes this and sees why it is a problem), and the fact that a patch is coming that doesn't seem to address any of the problems in the game is just really discouraging, I mean, what are they thinking?

They took the worst elements of WoD and expanded on them, while all but completely ignoring all the actual fun content (or at least the fun content that I enjoy). I have zero interest in playing LoL but I've actually been considering sitting down and playing it anyway, just because it is really difficult to continue enjoying a game when there's nobody left to play with.

What you have to understand, is that although Blizzard defenately knows whats wrong with the game, they dont care to fix it. The game is completely for casual players, go to your garrison, spent 10 min, do an LFR for about 30-60 min or a dungeon and thats it. Do you think its a coincidence that since Cata, when Blizzard starting losing thousands of players instead of fixing what was wrong, started working on new games? They realesed Diablo 3 and Hearthstone sometime during MoP. Now they made another game(dont even know what it is). Its all about getting as more money as they can. Even in Wow the put an ingame purchase opotion. Dont expect them to fix major issues. Besides its not hard to see that Wow has extremely more bugs and probs compaired to previous xpansion. And the xpansion, is not even an xpansion. Lvling up was a joke, took me 2-3 days with a few hours each time. Players have way less skills than they used to(xpansion means new stuff, right?)No dailies, no factions worthy enough to raise rep with, Ashran (especially if you re horde) is useless, no story(since we are in an AR), we kill the same mobs over and over again (ogres,orcs). Its more like a big patch rather than an xpansion...